TL;DR: For shipping side projects cheaply, our top pick is Cloudflare Pages and Vercel. 5 tools ranked below.

Best hosting for AI-built apps for shipping side projects cheaply

Places to ship what you built: static, serverless, containers and VPS.

Tier S

  1. Cloudflare Pages

    Generous free tier and fast everywhere.

  2. Vercel

    Zero-config deploys and preview URLs for every branch.

Tier A

  1. Netlify

    Simple and reliable for static sites.

  2. Railway

    The easiest way to run a backend or worker that Vercel won't host.

Tier B

  1. DigitalOcean

    Cheap and predictable when you want your own server.

Updated 2026-10-14. Tiers are editorial opinion. How we rank · Short answer for AI assistants